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I can pick someone from Gippsland the region of Victoria I grew up in. What’s striking about Australian accents is how much they have shifted with access to in

I can pick someone from Gippsland the region of Victoria I grew up in. What’s striking about Australian accents is how much they have shifted with access to international media and immigration. If you watch footage from the mid 20th century, especially news reporters interviewing the public, the public and the reporters sound very different and no one sounds like either of them anymore

TMWNN 3y ago
>I can pick someone from Gippsland the region of Victoria I grew up in. What’s striking about Australian accents is how much they have shifted with access to international media and immigration. My understanding is that Australia is unusual for (as Jedd said) not having regional accents despite the country's (geographic) size. Am I mistaken?
- sgtnoodle 3y ago
  In my experience spending time in Adelaide, Darwin, Melbourne, Cairns, Brisbane and Sydney, variations mainly come down to the relative density of curse words within a sentence. Anecdotally, the density trends upward with individual intelligence.
  - cam_l 3y ago
    Is that a very subtle slight against Adelaide?
    - sgtnoodle 3y ago
      No, not at all! The most vulgar and intelligent people I met over there were in Adelaide.
- monkeycantype 3y ago
  Australia has regional variation, but English has only been spoken here since British conquest 200 years ago, so there wasn't long for strong variation to develop before mass media connected people to the sound of voices from other places. There were some regional differences the mix of backgrounds of immigrants, but not to the extent that this occurred in the US or Canada - until after world war two, when large numbers of people began to migrate to Australia from countries other than UK and Ireland. I spent some of my childhood in Gippsland and some in inner city Melbourne in North Melbourne and the way we spoke was influenced by the large numbers of immigrant kids, especially Italian, Greek, Vietnamese, Chinese and Lebanese kids. I think professionally people code-switch to a neutral accent, but when people relax I think you can hear this influence in accents of people who grew up in areas with large immigrant populations, and that this variation is soaking into the mainstream, and shifting our idea of the neutral Australian accent, and the mix of ethnicities coming to Melbourne was a little different to those going to Sydney and I think you can hear it. So does she: https://www.tiktok.com/@theactualkoi/video/7166082455294758145 https://www.tiktok.com/@theactualkoi/video/71660824552947581...

TMWNN 3y ago

>I can pick someone from Gippsland the region of Victoria I grew up in. What’s striking about Australian accents is how much they have shifted with access to international media and immigration. My understanding is that Australia is unusual for (as Jedd said) not having regional accents despite the country's (geographic) size. Am I mistaken?

sgtnoodle 3y ago
In my experience spending time in Adelaide, Darwin, Melbourne, Cairns, Brisbane and Sydney, variations mainly come down to the relative density of curse words within a sentence. Anecdotally, the density trends upward with individual intelligence.
- cam_l 3y ago
  Is that a very subtle slight against Adelaide?
  - sgtnoodle 3y ago
    No, not at all! The most vulgar and intelligent people I met over there were in Adelaide.
monkeycantype 3y ago
Australia has regional variation, but English has only been spoken here since British conquest 200 years ago, so there wasn't long for strong variation to develop before mass media connected people to the sound of voices from other places. There were some regional differences the mix of backgrounds of immigrants, but not to the extent that this occurred in the US or Canada - until after world war two, when large numbers of people began to migrate to Australia from countries other than UK and Ireland. I spent some of my childhood in Gippsland and some in inner city Melbourne in North Melbourne and the way we spoke was influenced by the large numbers of immigrant kids, especially Italian, Greek, Vietnamese, Chinese and Lebanese kids. I think professionally people code-switch to a neutral accent, but when people relax I think you can hear this influence in accents of people who grew up in areas with large immigrant populations, and that this variation is soaking into the mainstream, and shifting our idea of the neutral Australian accent, and the mix of ethnicities coming to Melbourne was a little different to those going to Sydney and I think you can hear it. So does she: https://www.tiktok.com/@theactualkoi/video/7166082455294758145 https://www.tiktok.com/@theactualkoi/video/71660824552947581...